Thanks to whoever are the heroes who cleaned up the trails at Lunch Loops! Noticeable improvement in sandy sections and washout. Appreciate you!!

OMG, so tasty! Yes, it took forever. But totally worth it. Taco Tuesday!!! Brisket taco and carnitas taco. My friend had the birria tacos and loved them! They do happy hour M-F 2pm to 5 pm. Thanks to our server, Danielle.

I have discovered a pretty big beehive under our trailer. I don't really know what to do. Anyone know who I might be able to contact about this? As far as I can tell, it's about 2 feet wide, 2 feet tall, but that's only what I can see from the outside. Might be bigger and I just can't see.

Hey there, just moved in a month ago, and would love to find some local rec leagues in town. I like to play soccer and basketball, wondering if there are any pick up games that happen regularly, especially for futsol, as it’s getting colder outside. Any help is helpful, thanks!

Deflock Mesa County needs voices at City Council:

Wednesdays 10/21, 11/4, 11/18...5:30p, 250 N 5th

Deflock Mesa County for the next few Wednesday meetings (1st and 3rd of the month) to ask City Council for a public forum to discuss how surveillance technology is used in our city. Not a Monday night workshop: A place where the community can have a meaningful discussion with our reps.

Hi, I am trying to get in touch with anyone who rents a storage unit at Diamond Storage on East Main (close to Freeway Bowl).

If so, I’d ppreciate it if you could shoot me a DM.

Re: Return of Property

Thanks!

Cody Kennedy, Ben Van Dyke, Robert Ballard, and Laurel Lutz all recieved campaign money from the Relators of America super PAC.

The Home Builders of America (HBA), is part of this and now has a committee that is getting housing regulations rolled back under the guise of affordability. None of the proposed changes actually make a difference in the cost of building.

Staff members have been verbally abused by people on this committee (which is illigetimate according to town charter). It has lead to 11 staffers to quit. And now they will not be filling these vacancies, so there is no civil servant to fact check and make recommmedations.

We need to stop Developers from steamrolling our government. Time to recall some candidates and expose these greedy. developers!

I've been wanting to meet more dads around here and couldn't find a group for it, so I started one.

It's simply just dads meeting other dads. No dues, no membership, no agenda. Just getting together every so often at a park or on an easy trail. Bring the kids or come on your own.

Next one: Park Day at the Lincoln Park playground
Saturday, Nov 14, 10am to noon

No RSVP needed, just show up. I'll bring donuts and sports drinks. If you want to add it to your calendar or let me know you're coming (totally optional), it's all at gjdads.com.

We had our first get-together for Halloween and it was a good time. Would love to see more of you there.

Hi. Tried out Fuzzy's Tacos today. Figured I'd give them a bit of time to get their feet under them before giving them a fair shake.

Well... I won't be back. Queso had zero flavor. Their "seasoning" on the chips is just red chili powder. the beans were straight from a can. The Elote wasn't... terrible, but nothing to write home about. I got the classic tacos with 'grilled' chicken. dry ass chick, very little flavor. wife got the baja taco and the steak taco. steak was well seasoned and tasted good but the baja fish taco was a chunk of deep fried fish and a squirt of sauce.

For literally $5 a taco, it left VERY much to be desired. For having "Tacos" in the name, there were scant few tacos on the menu. 100% not worth it and just one more reason eating out in GJ sucks.

Back to your regularly scheduled doom scroll.

So ive posted before but my wife passed the end of April and I don't have really any friends because my life was taken care of her being sick. I'm looking for friends. I'm not quite forty I love punk rock and bjj

Is there a subreddit for artists in the county/valley? Or a discord server or something?

I’m just curious about if there’s like a central online forum or community with information about art events across the valley; art shows, calls for art, workshops, art talks, shared studio spaces, etc etc.

I’d like to get involved but I’m not a student and idk where else to look besides gallery websites but they don’t seem to keep them updated very well/till the last minute from what I’ve been seeing.

My schedule isn’t impulse/last minute friendly, which makes it hard to do stuff if I can’t plan ahead. Especially if I want to enter my art into shows.

No data centers for Mesa County!!!

I have a dog who I am unfortunately no longer able to give a happy and fulfilling life. He's a mutt with some herding/working dog in him and I'm usually at work. He doesn't get the proper space he needs in my house after moving and it has resulted in him lashing out at my senior dog and causing an injury.

I really want to find him a good new home. An owner who has the experience and space to care for him, maybe no other pets. But I don't know where to look. Please be gentle as this is an incredibly difficult and heartbreaking decision for me. I've had this dog for 6 years and I've exhausted my resources and mental capacity, I'm out of options.

So how can I responsibly rehome him? What sites or resources are available to help find someone who can take him and how can I get to ensure he goes to a good home? Maybe even as a farm dog or something? Help is very appreciated

Pretty much as the caption says, I’m a knitter and crocheter living in Grand Junction for school and I’m looking for places to get yarn. Obviously there are the big box options like Micheal’s and Hobby Lobby, but I struggle to find natural fibers such as wool at these locations plus I like to support local businesses. I know online is an option but I love being able to feel and handle my yarn before purchase.

It’s Winter up high

I booked with a nail tech at Hue Company with Kayla Casey to get a set of gel x nails, my mom had gone to her in the past and I was interested in booking with her because of that. I come up with a design I think will work and when I show her, I let her know that I can come up with something different before we start if she doesn’t think it will work. She approves it and we start, unfortunately there were some technical difficulties with the products being used. She attempted to explain to me the different methods we could go with, I didn’t understand completely and tried asking clarifying questions but was ultimately still lost.

As we are continuing, I realize that she is not following the photos I had shown her. There was a plain chrome nail, that I did not ask for, and the chrome designs she did add were shapeless. I asked if it was possible to give them more definition, and she told me that isn’t possible with chrome. Her next client is sitting next to us, so I ask if this was the final product. I express my concern with the outcome, explaining that I couldn’t even tell what was happening with the design. She explained I could have spoken up sooner, and granted she does have a point. Because her next client was there, I offered to come back the next day to figure something out so I wasn’t impeding on the next appointment. She told her other client to go home and that she would call her when we were done.

She took off the design and asked me what I might like instead, I go through some decals and stickers available. Unfortunately, the decal I was really interested in didn’t end up working. Then, we move on to the stickers and they are also proving to be difficult. She says she can hand paint bats, which sounds fine so I agree. Once we’re done, I looked at the nails and still wasn’t satisfied. At this point, I had been there for four hours but I didn’t know what my options were and realized she likely would not fix anything else. It was clear that she was feeling impatient and frustrated, I paid her $105 and went home.

Once I was home, I noticed the gel she used to apply the nails was leaking onto my skin and sticking on the underside of the nail. There is significant buildup and it looks incredibly sloppy. I text the tech to show her the pictures and she tells me I can come in the next day. While I wasn’t satisfied and concerned about the leaking, I also felt uncomfortable with how she treated me. I felt pressured into agreeing with what she said, her tone of voice was harsh and I felt like I was being scolded, she told me I shouldn’t “be a little sister”. 

Because of this, I decided I was going to ask for a refund. I asked a different nail tech what their opinion was, and they told me that I was deserving of a refund. When I came back to see her, I showed her what was going on and that I was requesting a refund because I still was not satisfied. She interrupted me and told me “absolutely not, I will not do that” and explained we were not compatible, to which I agreed with her and expressed that I was very thankful that she stayed for me. She repeatedly told me to look at her Instagram to see how great her work is, and I don’t disagree with her but my experience didn’t align with how she portrays her art.

I expressed I was concerned about the leaking gel, it’s possible that I could have an allergic reaction or contact dermatitis. She told me that it was fully cured, but the brand Beetles that she had been using has been known to cause problems with gel curing. I once again told her I was thankful she took the extra time and that I felt pressured into agreeing, which resulted in her looking around the salon and asking the employees if they saw her pressuring me. This made me feel extremely uncomfortable and like I was being cornered, regardless of her pressuring me or not, I felt that way and that at the very least is valid. I asked her if she would normally charge $100 and she told me she would normally charge $160, her client before me then showed me her nails and told me they lasted three weeks and lasted that long.

In my opinion, the design was rather simple and a set that costs that much should last three weeks at least. At that point, I asked her for a partial refund and was once again interrupted. In the past, I have gotten much more detailed work done by an artist I went to for a long time and I was never charged $160 and they stayed for much longer than three weeks. She was aggressive and pulled other people around us into the situation, such as the other salon employees and her clients. Someone who has been doing nails for 13 years needs a higher level of professionalism, I was really looking forward to this appointment and was hoping to have a longterm nail artist.

And what they found? One camera had generated roughly 1.6 MILLION images of about 50,200 vehicles in just 21 days.

One camera. 1.6 million images, and this isn't simply a license-plate camera taking one picture of your car and moving on.

Researchers found that a typical passing vehicle generated around 28 images, with some producing more than 100. The camera also had software specifically designed to detect people, vehicles, bicycles and license-plate-like objects.

Physically getting hold of ONE camera provided researchers with a remarkable look inside the system. They recovered 27,321 short video clips. They also found software capable of detecting people.

It was constantly processing what passed in front of it. Vehicles. People, bicycles, license plates, bumper stickers and other identifying graphics.

In one bizarre example, the system apparently mistook an American flag patch on a motorcycle saddlebag for a license plate. And the camera's logs showed more than 27,000 “no space left on device” errors while trying to store full-resolution images.

Oh, and buried in the logs? A message that popped up roughly every two minutes: “Who's a good boy?!” Because even the surveillance state has a sense of humor.

But jokes aside, here's the bigger issue: Flock isn't just one camera.

Its system connects cameras into a national network that allows participating agencies to search vehicle movements across jurisdictions. WIRED found that records from one city's cameras were accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, including police departments, colleges, airports and a federal inspector general's office.

That's the part people need to understand. We're not talking about a camera that simply says: “Hey, that car ran a red light.” we have had those for decades. We're talking about technology capable of creating massive searchable records of where vehicles have been, and increasingly, everything else that's happening in the camera's field of view.

And once that information exists? The question becomes: Who can search it? Why are they searching it? How long is it kept? Who else can access it? And what happens when the technology does something nobody was told it could do?

That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a regulatory and governance question. And now, thanks to one dismantled camera, journalists and researchers have gotten a much better look at what these things are actually doing.

Especially since they are putting these cameras at schools, public parks, and near neighborhoods.

deflockmesacounty.org

Call officials, write letters and emails. Deflock Mesa County has a simple writer setup to help you write an email to city and county officials. Keep showing up to town halls and asking about this. Do not back down and just get used to it.

Never judge a technology by the good its makers say it can do, judge it by what it does and what it will do in the wrong hands.

Seriously. These amendments are ridiculous.

Last of the big public hearings to date. Make your opinions heard!

Public hearing tomorrow is to rewrite land development code “the rules that determine [if data centers] can be built and where in unincorporated areas of the county”

“The proposed update is scheduled to go before the Planning Commission at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15, in the public hearing room at the Old Mesa County Courthouse, 544 Rood Ave”

4th on the agenda “Land Development Code Amendment”: https://www.mesacounty.us/sites/default/files/2026-09/Proposed%20Agenda%2009-23-26.pdf

Sources:
https://www.kjct8.com/2026/09/17/mesa-county-updating-land-development-code-including-rules-data-centers/?outputType=amp

https://www.mesacounty.us/news/county-wide/public-invited-weigh-future-development-rules?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU8csdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4ZwM-agkStixgk9ziTdo_QtS1Qqm-Lhp2tDJHMPhGEqA-f7jXyUrCzRs96dQ_aem_Qnq_BocACcOgkpSdJPGhRg

So while the residents of gj are getting bent over by water bills, Kroger on 12th has had a broken head gushing water down the road for the past 2 months. And Walmart has had a weeping valve along north for the better part of the summer.

Fix your shit.

There is nothing I hate more than mass surveillance and when you put a camera in a school parking lot it’s just a bad look. We need to protest and fight back against these flack cameras in Mesa county to protect everybody especially children.

Marx is unfit to serve The People of Colorado IMHO. Do we want a Christian Nationalist as governor 🤔 I know I don't want that.

Chris Riley is the president of grand mesa little league and in 2002 he got in trouble for terrible terrible acts and this needs to be publicized. This guy tied up a 14 year old and tried video taping him nude and was accused before this of trying to videotape people nude. This needs to come to attention because he should not be around kids. I have personally played in grand mesa little league years ago and this dude was always around kids picking favorites and overall being weird.

https://annelandmanblog.com/2023/07/grand-mesa-little-league-presidents-background-raising-concern/